Textiles NZ's Role

To assist the sector – internationally and domestically – to secure sustainable new markets and new customers
To promote the growth of textiles exports
To promote the use of research and development by textiles businesses
To ensure NZ businesses receive a fair go
To promote the value of employment in local manufacturing
To improve company performance by sharing best practice methods
To improve skills levels across the industry by encouraging more, and higher level training programmes
To strengthen the industry’s value chain relationships
To lift the profile of the industry and its importance to the NZ economy

From these goals, Textiles New Zealand has developed its own set of action plans and priorities, to help the industry achieve its strategic goals.

Textiles New Zealand operates on these underlying principles to:

Act as a catalyst for change and encourage an industry-wide approach to create an environment in which collaboration can flourish
Encourage textiles companies to see themselves as a design industry providing lifestyle solutions
Strengthen business capability and the industry value chain
Provide a framework for textiles companies to communicate with each other, the government and other stakeholder groups
Encourage industry investment in specific textiles research and technology with market potential
Be the “voice of the textiles industry” by working with government and other industry organisations on policy issues
Leverage industry resources to attract additional project funding wherever possible